Heavy Plate Jacket
Offers superior protection at the cost of aiming down sights and reduced movement speed.
Wearing the Heavy Plate Jacket in Rust protects your chest, stomach, arms and hands. Hits on the parts it covers take 75% less bullet and arrow damage and 70% less melee damage. It also gives 7 radiation protection. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 100 scrap to research.
About the Heavy Plate Jacket
Against blasts, which hit no single body part, its 100% explosion protection counts as 17%. Its heat protection is negative (-100%), so fire burns you harder while you wear it. Its cold protection is negative (-100%), so it chills you in cold weather.
From full condition it soaks up 1,000 damage before it breaks.
On the tech tree it sits behind 4 other unlocks: Road Sign Jacket, Coffee Can Helmet, Boots and Hazmat Suit. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Heavy Plate Jacket protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 70% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. None of the 24 protective pieces for the chest and arms beats it for bullet protection. It carries a 20% movement speed penalty, and the penalties of everything you wear add up. You cannot aim down sights while wearing it.
How to craft the Heavy Plate Jacket
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 2 × Sheet Metal and 4 × High Quality Metal.
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How to get the Heavy Plate Jacket blueprint
Research it for 100 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 5 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item 
100 Scrap Blueprint 100 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page Unlocked 5 How to repair the Heavy Plate Jacket
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 1 × High Quality Metal and 81 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
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×81 Reduction is how much of that damage type never lands. Damage taken is the rest: at 50% reduction a hit for 100 does 50. A negative reduction means the hit lands harder than it would bare.
What the Heavy Plate Jacket recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 1 × Sheet Metal and 2 × High Quality Metal for one.
×1 ×2 ×1 ×2 20% 40% 
×1 ×3 50% 
×1 80% 60% Where to find the Heavy Plate Jacket
Treasure Box has the best chance at 1.6%, followed by Locked Crate at 1.3% and Elite Crate at 0.78%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
